AROUND THE STATION
![1999 Alternative Radio Personality of the Year award to Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/AlternativeRadioPersonalityoftheYearAlbumNetworkawardtoJedTheFish.jpg)
Between Kevin and Bean and Jed The Fish, we had a pretty good award run until Album Network, the trade publication, was bought by Clear Channel. I guess our competition couldn't bear to see us sweeping up awards, so they just bought the magazine. Now they are called I Heart. Do you think I Heart is a good name for a radio group?
![Jed The Fish introduces Tears for Fears at the 25th Anniversary of Acoustic Christmas](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/JedTheFishintroducesTearsforFearsatthe25thAnniversaryofAcousticChristmas.jpg)
I would have loved talking with the band I was introducing, but I was having too much fun seeing everyone again. The 2014 crowd seemed to have heard of Jed The Fish.
![Dennis Hopper's autograph to Jed The Fish](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/DennisHoppersautographtoJedTheFish.jpeg)
In April 2011, the book "Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967," arrived at Book Soup in West Hollywood and I waited in line like all his other fans. Blue Velvet has always been a favorite of mine. Perhaps David Lynch's most compelling work, the characterizations and dialog will live forever. Dennis also gave vivid performances in Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and True Romance. The Blue Lady oddly aroused by Frank Booth in this publicity still.
![Baaaaybe Alice](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Baaaaybe_Alice.jpg)
At 8 weeks. I could take her anywhere at this age. She just went into a little bag, poking her head out, impressing people (girls especially).
Category | All |
Taken | March 29, 2005 |
Uploaded | April 20, 2019 |
![Stuart, Big Country at KROQ, Pasadena](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/IMG_2108.jpg)
One of the bands I had forgotten I interviewed, Big Country, except for this Debbie Leavitt photo. The Scottish must find it oppressive in the US these days, particularly if they smoke.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 80s, All |
Taken | March 27, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 30, 2019 |
![Dave Alvin at a gig](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/IMG_2107.jpg)
photo by Debbie Leavitt
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 80s, All |
Taken | March 27, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 30, 2019 |
![The Clash backstage](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/IMG_2106.jpg)
photo bt Debbie Leavitt.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 80s, All |
Taken | March 27, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 30, 2019 |
![Eddie Money and Bryan Adams](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/IMG_2098.jpg)
Eddie Money and Bryan Adams
Backstage
Day on the Green
SF CA
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | 80s, All |
Taken | March 27, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 30, 2019 |
![REM exclusive photo session](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/IMG_2094.jpg)
REM
exclusive photo sesh
Chicago 1984
by Debbie Leavitt
![Martha Davis of the Motels](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/FullSizeRender.jpg)
photo Debbie Leavitt
Category | All |
Taken | March 27, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 30, 2019 |
![Jed The Fish, Cal State Fullerton's Daily Titan](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0079_a.jpg)
Jed The Fish, Cal State Fullerton's Daily Titan
![Jed The Fish, Cal State Fullerton's Daily Titan](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0077_a.jpg)
Jed The Fish, Cal State Fullerton's Daily Titan
![Jed The Fish, Cal State Fullerton's Daily Titan](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/djjedthefish.com_0074_a.jpg)
Jed The Fish, Cal State Fullerton's Daily Titan
![Original artwork from Jed The Fish tee shirt](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_40.jpg)
Original artwork from Jed The Fish tee shirt, created on the floor during a KROQ music meeting in the 90s. Features the "Dooley" prototype (spermy guy).
![KROQ beach towel](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_39.jpg)
We did KROQ beach remotes weekly for several years, where Joqs would broadcast their radio shows. I probably did the most, and even coming to the same beach several times over the years to give out these towels, they were all unique. Many conversations with listeners and artists. As Jed The Fish, it wore me out, but it was always fun.
![Jed The Fish’s KROQ Keychains](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_38.jpg)
Beach remote era KROQ Keychains.
Album | Everything Album |
Categories | All, Ephemera |
Taken | March 5, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 15, 2019 |
![Mid-80s KROQ poster](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_37.jpg)
Likely the most embraced version of the KROQ logo, it was co-designed by KROQ Promotions Director Quay Hays.
![Jed Gould for President poster](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_36.jpg)
I was Student Body President, 1972 at Casa Grande Union High School, Arizona. The year before, my step-brother Bill Koenig was. Many K-ROQers came from the Copper State, and that's when I became a broadcaster.
![30-year KROQ reunion poster](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_35.jpg)
Darrell Wayne organized this Pasadena Hilton event in 2006, where all the gory stories were told. Darrell hired me in 1978.
![KROQ Fall Calendar, 1983](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_34.jpg)
Quay Hays was the 1983 KROQ Promotions Director, and organized this wacky photo shoot. He oversaw the logo transition from line drawing (a sticker just above the "Nov") to full color, which was the most beloved logo of all time.
![Jed 33](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_33.jpg)
Category | All |
Taken | March 5, 2019 |
Uploaded | March 15, 2019 |
![DEVO performance poster](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_31.jpg)
When Devo was doing clubs, these posters -- with venue particulars -- were for promoters in each city.
![Jed The Fish U2 platinum award from Interscope Records](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_28.jpg)
I have discarded these awards if they had no meaning for me. This one did, because I feel I have a relationship with the band. U2 I will always remember because of their Jed The Fish interview for their Pop Mart tour. This award was for the following album.
![Jed The Fish UB40 award for Labor of Love II](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_27.jpg)
I have discarded these awards if they had no meaning for me. This one did, because I feel I have a relationship with the band. UB40 was an example of success by acclaim, not as much by promotion. That's why Jed The Fish support means something.
![Jed The Fish platinum award for Garbage](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/JedTheFishplatinumawardforGarbage.jpg)
I have discarded these awards if they had no meaning for me. This one did, because I feel I have a relationship with the band. Firstly, I loved Butch Vig, and Shirley Manson was an easy person to know. Although she was quite offended ten years later during an Inland Invasion Jed The Fish interview when I forgot the title of her latest single (Bad Boyfriend).
![Fat Boy Slim platinum award, detail.](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_25.jpg)
Fat Boy Slim platinum award, detail.
![Jed The Fish Fat Boy Slim platinum award for You've Come a Long Way Baby](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_24.jpg)
Fat Boy Slim I only met once, at Organic 96, an event that has evidently dropped off the internet, except for this article: https://www.laweekly.com/music/from-organic-96-to-the-hollywood-bowl-the-la-history-of-underworld-5671139
In the late nineties, I was the only one at KROQ supporting him, so yes, Jed The Fish graciously accepts this award.
![Jed The Fish's Depeche Mode 'Music For The Masses' gold record](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_23.jpg)
DMode I began playing on KROQ because the producer was Daniel Miller, of The Normal (TVOD, Warm Leatherette, 1978). Mike Zampelli from Zed Records/LBC brought the single New Life to Pasadena with a dozen or so other records he wanted me to play on the Jed The Fish import show. Not a huge response but the band showed promise. Once Speak and Spell arrived, everyone on KROQ was playing it.
![Jed The Fish's Tone Loc platinum disk](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_22.jpg)
This is the most concrete example of Jed The Fish having an impact on an artist's success. My Catch of the Day feature allowed me to choose one song per day. One Tuesday in 1988 Anthony Smith and Matt Dyke talked their way past reception and brought me Wild Thing. I spent most of my shift talking with them and sent them off expecting to hear the single at 4:40 pm. The phones blew up, and I made the rare decision to play it again the next day. The day after that it was a mid-week add to KROQ (most radio stations do their music meetings on a Tuesday, where they decide what is 'added' to the playlist). By Thursday it was on KIIS-FM. A most memorable instance of watching a piece of vinyl setting the radio waves ablaze in a matter of hours.
![Jerry Casale of DEVO visiting Jed The Fish at KROQ](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/JerryCasaleofDEVOvisitingJedTheFishatKROQ.jpg)
My first week at KROQ -- before I was even called Jed The Fish -- my favorite band arrived in support of their first album. To meet them was an amazing experience, but to speak with them on the air was a dream come true. I blew the interview, but started a long relationship with the band, which I think made the biggest impact on 80s music. Constantly cited as inspirational by so many bands of the era, DEVO made a crazy instrument like the MiniMoog profoundly essential. And no one will ever play the MiniMoog like Mark Mothersbaugh.
![Jed The Fish's signed Duran Duran Patrick Nagel poster](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_20.jpg)
One of the few distinguished examples of Duran Duran ephemera signed by the entire band, Capitol Records gave me this for my support of the first two albums. Funny thing, the label actually had unpaid interns promoting the band. I think his name was Danny, and he brought me my first copy of 'Duran Duran' in the summer of 1981. Money well spent?
![Jed's Oingo Boingo 'Farewell' plaque, signed by the band](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_19.jpg)
There was nothing left to say when your band leader, after 10 years of scoring movies, is calling it quits. No more gold records to be had, hearing going bad, and bandmates so sad, they all autographed this poster from the site of the departure, the once-heralded Universal Amphitheater. Music and movies have never been the same since.
![Jed The Fish's autographed Tom Morello Fender Telecaster Squire](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_17.jpg)
Although this is the bitty Fender model -- and I doubt Tom ever played it -- to have this in my studio still making sound is amazing. Sadly, the 'soul power,' written in silver Sharpie, rubs right off with very little effort, you get the idea. Rock's best guitar player of the 90s? Come on! That's why KROQ even bothered to call it 'Roq of the 90's.' I haven't been gentle with it.
![Jed The Fish tee shirt, cir95](https://7m00cd.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/grand-media/image/Jed_16.jpg)
My very first tee shirt. If we wanted our own tee-shirts, the Joqs needed to pay for them. So if you got one, I must like you.
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